1999 Final Year Project

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1999 Final Year Projects
Prof. Michael R. Lyu
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Lyu9901 TravelNet

• Design a Web-based travel manager to reserve
  airplane tickets and hotel.
• A distributed system using database transaction
  and mobile agent techniques.
• Issues on data integrity and agent efficiency.
• Similar to Microsofts Expedia HK specific.
• Final development in Java/CORBA platform.

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Lyu9902 Wireless Campus

• Experiment on CSEs newly established net-centric
  and wireless network.
• Evaluate wireless campus and architecture.
• Develop software and system infrastructure.
• Create wireless education contents and service
  accessing/enabling techniques.
• Design courseware in wireless environment.

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A Wireless Demo Center
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Internet-Centric Wireless Campus
Education Application
Education Application
Education Application
Wire/wireless connection
Thin-client devices
Notebook, palmtop, PDAs
Desktop PCs
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Lyu9903 Web Proxy Server

• Implement reliable, secure, and intelligent proxy
  server for web management.
• Allow accessing, caching, processing of Web
  contents and multimedia data.
• Develop special-purpose private network.
• Joint work with ATT Research Lab. using their
  intelligent proxy system (iProxy).

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Integrated Smart Proxy Server
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Lyu9904 Digital Video Library

• Develop a multi-lingual digital video library for
  multimedia information capture, search,
  retrieval, summarization, and presentation.
• Robust indexing and retrieval of audio and video
  documents cross-linking of multiple information
  streams (multi-modal) video segmentation
  video extraction and display.
• Joint work with CMUs Informedia project.

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CMU Informdia Project
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Image Segmentation and Summarization
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Lyu9905 Multi-Agent Security

• Explore security issues for multi-agent
  distributed systems with E-commerce.
• Involve data encryption, authentication,
  firewall, and mobile agent techniques.
• Develop secure E-commerce applications.
• Design and evaluate security attack scenarios.

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Security Issues for Mobile Agents
Environment
Read/manipulate
Malicious Host
(Other agents)
Read/manipulate properties control execution
System call
Agent